Eli Flynn July 4th at Lux!

Eli Flynn & The Everymen
Audiences are well acquainted with Eli Flynn as a current member of the bands Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, The Able Bodies, and Upward Groove and on the stylistically diverse “Running With Scissors” — his debut solo album —there’s never a dull moment. “Easier” demonstrates Flynn’s prowess as a rock vocalist as he snarls his way through the melody with a limber range and soulful swagger that recalls the aplomb of on his 2003 breakthrough album “” “Every Word Is a Mountain” borrows from playbook of danceable ’90s pop that grooves, but mixed metaphors about “my love in a sling” and “broken logic hanging from a silver chair” distract from the song’s natural charms. Flynn’s words regain focus on the very next track. “There was a time in the beginning when devotion kept me spinning but that time is past,” he sings with calm wisdom on “Hell in a Handbasket.” Slide guitar and a Fender Rhodes organ sound meld over a loping tempo that flows like a lazy river: “Have you ever met your demons, took their advice without reason? Well I have.” Throughout the record, occasional wisps of soul and funk refresh the natural charm of Flynn’s charismatic tunes. The music was entrusted to sound engineers and Lincoln All and Aaron Lipp, whose supervision of mixing and mastering, respectively, gives the album its polish. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
Friday July 4th, 2025 10PM $5, 21+

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